violent
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
violent/ˈvʌɪələnt/
▶adjective
- 1 using or involving violence.
- 2 very intense, forceful, or powerful: violent dislike.
– derivatives
violently adverb.
violently adverb.
– origin ME: via OFr. from L. violent- ‘violent’.
'violent' also found in these Oxford entries:
abuse
- aggression
- animal
- assail
- assault
- bandit
- blag
- blizzard
- blood
- brutal
- brute
- burst
- bust
- cataclysm
- catastrophism
- chopsocky
- clash
- cloudburst
- concussion
- convulse
- convulsion
- coroner
- coup
- cut-throat
- descent
- desecrate
- desperate
- domestic
- earthquake
- electrical storm
- ferocious
- fierce
- fight
- flare
- foul play
- gangster
- haboob
- headbanging
- hellcat
- hellraiser
- hood
- hooligan
- hurricane
- incident
- incite
- inflammatory
- insurrection
- loggerhead
- maniac
- mayhem
